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Our awesome collection of rspec helpers (formerly known as "spec_candy.rb") is now available as a gem. It works, it is...

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An alternative to this technique is using VCR. VCR allows you to record and replay real HTTP responses, saving you...

This will tunnel HTTP requests to one given domain and port through an intermediary SSH server: ssh -L 8080:targethost...

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prototypejs.org

For example, to send a form and populate a preview div with the response. $('content_form').request({ parameters: { 'preview': "1...

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A fake filesystem. Use it in your tests.

When a Cucumber feature leaves your page through an external Link, Webrat has problems like "Could not find field: "E...

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This may be awkward to set up, but will work once you're done. Fun facts:

Most of these will not work in newer projects because these use the Capybara/Rack::Test combo in lieu of Webrat...

With defaults, RCov doesn't work the way you how you would like it to. To create a nice test...

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github.com

We built cucumber_spinner to have a progress bar for Cucumber features, which also outputs failing scenarios as soon as...

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To test concurrent code, you will need to run multiple threads. Unfortunately, when you use blocking system calls (e.g. locks...

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rspec_spinner is a progress bar for RSpec which outputs failing examples as they happen (instead of all at the...

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Install gem and plugin sudo gem install parallel script/plugin install git://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests.git Adapt config/database.yml test: database: xxx_test<%= ENV...

To parse XML-documents, I recommend the gem nokogiri. A few hints: xml = Nokogiri::XML(" foo bar ") parses an xml...

sudo gem install gettext --no-ri --no-rdoc sudo gem install fast_gettext --no-ri --no-rdoc script/plugin install git://...

When you need to patch an existing gem, one way is to "vendor" the gem by copying it into the...

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This note shows how to merge an ugly feature branch with multiple dirty WIP commits back into the master as...

Append this to your ~/.bashrc: export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w\[\033[31m\]$(__git_ps1 "(%s...

To run a single test file: rake test:units TEST=test/unit/post_test.rb rake test:functionals TEST=test/functional/posts_controller_test.rb rake test:integration TEST...

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Basic configuration Please keep this config simple. It should be a starting point for new developers learning Git. [user]

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This is for people recovering from Subversion. Get an existing from the server for the first time git clone git@example.com...

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github.com

Cerberus is a lightweight and easy-to-use Continuous Builder software for Ruby. It could be run periodically from a...

railscheck.rubyforge.org

This project is (or will be) a best effort semi-static verifier for your Ruby on Rails projects. Delivered as...